I think actual digital data centers can have value for humanity. You need to store things like Wikipedia and Archive.org and other worthwhile sites and services somewhere.
What is shit is the explosion in “data” centers that are really more like gigawatt space heaters that spit out fake images and wrong statements on the side.
Wikipedia and whole of archive.org probably fit on 1 rack full of drives. 99,999% of what’s on datacenters are literal garbage photos, videos and what not that people don’t delete, and their copies in many other locations for high availability.
Kiwix library is a site where you can download wikipedia, project gutenberg, devdocs, and other stuff like that as .zim files, which you can open with the kiwix software and basically browse the sites offline/locally
Yeah, I know the perversion of words is a regular thing (for various malicious or random reasons), but the the current use of “AI” and “data certes” really keeps fucking me mid communication (evey time I hear “AI” I think “oh, non-AI-AI”).
The last time this happened as much (iirc) was the word “literally” (as in ‘it literally keeps fucking me mid communication’).
So yes, data centres (libraries) are important, including managing risks of such centres (eg de/centralisation, concentration, etc).
I would say intelligence is important too but … I lack the evidence.
I think actual digital data centers can have value for humanity. You need to store things like Wikipedia and Archive.org and other worthwhile sites and services somewhere.
What is shit is the explosion in “data” centers that are really more like gigawatt space heaters that spit out fake images and wrong statements on the side.
You can download the entire Wikipedia and use it locally.
Wikipedia and whole of archive.org probably fit on 1 rack full of drives. 99,999% of what’s on datacenters are literal garbage photos, videos and what not that people don’t delete, and their copies in many other locations for high availability.
Kiwix library is a site where you can download wikipedia, project gutenberg, devdocs, and other stuff like that as .zim files, which you can open with the kiwix software and basically browse the sites offline/locally
Yeah, I know the perversion of words is a regular thing (for various malicious or random reasons), but the the current use of “AI” and “data certes” really keeps fucking me mid communication (evey time I hear “AI” I think “oh, non-AI-AI”).
The last time this happened as much (iirc) was the word “literally” (as in ‘it literally keeps fucking me mid communication’).
So yes, data centres (libraries) are important, including managing risks of such centres (eg de/centralisation, concentration, etc).
I would say intelligence is important too but … I lack the evidence.
Literally has meant figuratively longer than literally only meant objectively.
Touche.
Alas, I did not touch you!
Funny how words grow and change with use 😁
No, that was an invitation, do touch.